After the sun sets it comes up the next morning, so saying someone is "sunsetting" something would be more of a long reboot than getting rid of the thing or shutting it down.

Why is this term used?

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I mean when a company like Google announces they are shutting down support for ChromeOS in 2034 it's a slow ease out of letting people know ahead of time you wont get updates in 8 years. If they called it a bullet to the brain I would expect updates would no longer come to the product immediately.

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